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GARDEN PLANNING 



vegetable ground was a thing by itself, and 

 no one thought of blending it with the flower 

 ground. 



Apart, however, from this question of har- 

 monizing the two main departments of the 

 garden, I would advance the plea for neatness, 

 order, and picturesque effect in the kitchen 

 garden. The soil should be constrained by 

 edgings to keep it off the paths, and for this 

 purpose there is possibly no better material 

 than ordinary builder's bricks laid on edge. 

 Just inside the brick line a row of parsley 

 plants will make a fresh, massy, green band, 

 and elsewhere the other herbs may help to 

 outline the garden divisions and give finish 

 to the beds; at the same time all will be con- 

 veniently accessible. 



Let us now look into the more practical 

 details of the kitchen garden design. It is 

 good practice to subdivide the plots into 

 separate beds with narrow paths between, 

 as shown in Fig. 55. Such beds may have 

 dimensions determined by the space available 

 and by the owner's intentions as regards the 

 crops to be grown. 



In a small vegetable ground annexed to a 



